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Lucky Eight for Rowing Cox Jack

Durham School 1st Eight rowing cox and Durham Eye Editor, Jack Deverson (age 16), celebrated 8 A*’s in GCSE results announced today. Jack was also awarded 1 A and 1 B grade.

Jack, a pupil at Durham School, has had a truly remarkable year, launching and editing the school’s own newspaper ‘The Durham Eye’, as well as steering the Durham School 1st Eight rowing crew to qualification for the Henley Royal Regatta (it has been 21 years since an Eight from the Durham School Boat Club has qualified for the Henley Royal Regatta). Jack also steered the school’s Boat Club to gold medal success at the Ghent Spring International Regatta, held in Belgium earlier in the year.

In this special Olympic year, launched on the Eighth Day of the Eighth Month of 2008, the number 8 has certainly proved to be lucky, not only for Team GB, but also for Jack!

GCSE congratulations also go to: Alastair Galbraith-Brown (7 A*, 2 A grades and 1 B grade), Matthew Tiffin (6 A*, 3 A grades and 1 B grade), Alex Turnbull, Josh Tognarelli and Johanna Kellett, who all achieved 5 A* grades, and James Grant, Fraser Jackson and Byong Choi, who each had 4 A* among their 10 passes.

Quote from David Goodhew, the new Deputy Head (Curriculum) at Durham School:

“Well done to this year’s GCSE candidates: their hard work, combined with good teaching, has produced a very pleasing set of results. In particular, I am delighted that so many students have significantly outperformed their target grades, demonstrating very strong ‘value-added’ across a range of subjects.”

Congratulations also to all the many other candidates who did not necessarily score the highest grades but whose excellent individual performances are a personal triumph.